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The settlers of Newbury were much like those of much of what is
now northern Essex county. They were not religious enthusiasts or
pilgrims who fled from religious persecution in England. They were
substantial, law abiding, loyal English tradesmen, of that staunch
middle class that was the backbone of England.
Those that settled Newbury came at different times and on
different ships, between the end of April, 1634 and July, 1635. In one
of the first ships arriving in 1635, came Thomas Parker a minister
along with a small company of settlers. They went first to Agawam
(Ipswich) and later along with their countrymen, who came from
Wiltshire, England, to Newbury.
On May 6, 1635, before the settlers had moved from Ipswich to
Newbury, the House of Deputies passed a resolution that Quascacunquen
was to be established as a plantation and its name was to be changed
to Newbury. So Newbury was named before the first settlers arrived,
interestingly Thomas Parker had taught school in Newbury, Berkshire,
England before coming to America.
The first settlers came by water from Ipswich, through Plum
Island Sound, and up the Quascacunquen River, which was later renamed
the Parker River. There had been a few fisherman occupying the banks
of the Merrimack and Parker rivers before this, but they were not
permanent settlers. These settlers came to Newbury in May or June of
1635. Ships from England began to arrive almost immediately with
cattle and more settlers. Governor Winthrop, in his history of New
England under the date of June 3, 1635, records the arrival of two
ships with Dutch cattle along with the ship "James", from Southampton
bringing more settlers.
Newbury was, therefore, begun as a stock raising enterprise and
the settlers came to engage in that business and to establish homes
for themselves. In total fifteen ships came in June and one each in
August, November and December bringing still more families to the
settlement.
There is no record of how many families arrived in the first
year. Houses were erected on both sides of the Parker River. The
principal settlement was around the meeting house on the lower green.
The first church in Newbury could not have been formed before June, as
some of those recorded at its formation are not recorded as having
arrived until June.
In the division of land the first settlers recognized the
scripture rule, "to him that hath shall be given," and the wealth of
each grantee can be estimated by the number of acres given him.
The reason for establishing Newbury, as stated above, was not in
fleeing from religious persecution but to utilize vacant lands and to
establish a profitable business for the members of a stock-raising
company.
When they arrived in Massachusetts, the settlers found that the
state had established the Congregational form of religion. Everyone
was taxed to support the Congregational Society and was commanded to
attend worship at the meeting house. The Reverend Thomas Parker was a
member of the stock raising company and was also the minister of the
settlers.
The outlying settlers had a long journey to the meeting house.
The congregations were in danger of attacks from Indians and wild
beasts on their way to and from worship. There was a constant dread of
attack during the time of services and all able bodied inhabitants
were required to bring their weapons to church. Sentinels were posted
at the doors.
In spite of the hardship and danger, the population steadily
increased in number and gradually improved its worldly condition.
Being cramped for room, the settlers moved up to the upper or training
green. This was in order to get tillable land and engage in commercial
pursuits. This movement began in 1642. Each had been allotted half an
acre for a building lot on the lower green, on the upper green each
was to have four acres for a house lot. Also on the upper green a new
pond was artificially formed for watering cattle.
The new town gradually extended along the Merrimack River to the
mouth of the Artichoke River. It appears that all desirable land in
this region was apportioned among the freeholders by October 1646. The
land beyond was ordered to lie perpetually common. This tract of
common land was a part of Newbury and what is now West Newbury. The
Indian threat had disappeared as most of the Indians in the region had
been exterminated by an epidemic. The first record of an Indian living
in Newbury is in January 1644, when a lot was granted to "John
Indian."
Over the following years some notable, though not earth shaking
events occurred in Newbury. In 1639, Edward Rawson began the
manufacture of gun powder in what was probably America's first powder
mill.
Newbury had a trial for witchcraft thirteen years before the
trials in Salem. In 1679, Elizabeth Morse was accused. She was
condemned three times to die, but was reprieved and spent her last
years in her home, at what is now Market square in Newburyport.
The first American born silversmith was Jeremiah Dummer of
Newbury who apprenticed to John Hull, an Englishman. He practiced his
trade in what is now Newburyport. Jeremiah was the father of Governor
William Dummer the founder of Gov. Dummer Academy. Jeremiah's
brother-in-law, John Coney, engraved the plates for the first paper
money made in America.
In 1686, when the upper Commons (West Newbury) were divided among
the freeholders of the town of Newbury, Pipestave Hill was covered
with a dense forest of oak and birch. These trees were cut and used to
make staves for wine casks and molasses hogsheads. For many years,
this industry, the first of its kind in America, flourished and the
place is still called Pipestave Hill.
Limestone was discovered in Newbury in 1697. Previous to this all
the lime used for building was obtained from oyster and clam shells.
Mortar made from this lime was very durable and came, in time, to be
almost as hard as granite. This business prospered for many years
until a superior quality of lime was discovered elsewhere.
The first toll bridge and shipyard in America were also in
Newbury. The latter giving rise to the ship building industry which
was to determine the prosperity of Newburyport in the coming
centuries.
(source; NEWBURY - A Brief History
[http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/4028/history.htm])
"In February, 1633-34 the Council for New England, assembled at
Whitehall, England, adopted an order placing certain restrictions on
the transportation of passengers and merchandise to the colony of
Massachusetts Bay; and before the ship "Mary and John" and eight other
vessels, then lying in the river Thames, were allowed to sail,
instructions were issued expressly providing
that the captains in command of these vessels "shall cause the Prayers
contained in the Book of Common Prayers, established in the Church
of England, to be said daily at the usual hours of Morning and Evening
Prayers, and that they cause all persons on board said ships to be
present at the same."
In the ship "Mary and John" cam Thomas Parker, James Noyes, John
Spencer, Henry Short,Henry Lunt, John Bartlett, and many others, who
ultimately settled in Newbury. Upon their arrival in New England most
of these passengers went to Agawam, now Ipswich, Mass., where they
remained until the spring of 1635.
Meanwhile Sir Richard Saltonstall, Henry Sewall, Richard and
Stephen Dummer, with others from Wiltshire, England had organized a
company for the purpose of stock-raising at a time when the prices for
cattle, horses, and sheep were at their highest. They added to their
own domestic herds some imported Flemish stock, and persuaded John
Spencer, Henry Short, Richard Kent,Thomas Parker, and others to join
them in the enterprise, and establish a settlement on the river
Quascacunquen, now Parker River.
Sept. 3, 1633, the General Court granted "John Winthrop, junior,
and his assignes" permission to set up a trading house on the
Merrimack River; and under date of May 6, 1635, the House of Deputies
passed the following order:-
Quascacunquen is allowed by the court to be a plantation, and it is
referred to Mr. (John) Humphrey, Mr. (John) Endicott, Captain
(Nathaniel) Turner, and Captain (William) Trask, or any three of them,
to set out the bounds of Ipswich and Quascacunquen, or so much thereof
as they can; and the name of said plantation shall be changed, and
shall hereafter be called Newberry.
Further, it is ordered that it shall be in the power of the court
to take order that the said plantation shall receive a sufficient
company to make a competent towne.
Previous to this date, undoubtedly, a few venturesome fishermen
had built temporary residences on the banks of the Merrimack and
Quascacunquen rivers; but they were looked upon as trespassers and
intruders, for the General Court had forbidden all persons from
settling within their jurisdiction without leave.
Rev. Thomas Parker and those associated with him, having obtained
permission to begin a plantation "to be called Newberry", made
preparations to remove from Ipswich early in the spring. There were no
roads through the trackless forest, and the transportation of women
and children and household goods overland was impracticable. Tradition
asserts that they came by the way of Plum Island Sound, in open boats,
and landed, in the month of May or June, 1635, on the north shore of
what is now the river Parker, in a little cover about one hundred rods
below the bridge; Nicholas Noyes, the brother of Rev. James Noyes,
being the first to leap ashore.
Near this secluded spot a number of summer cottages have recently
been erected, giving to the place a pleasant, home-like look; but two
centuries and a half ago the prospect was less agreeable and inviting.
"...Eastward, cold, wide marshes stretched away,
Dull, dreary flats without a bush or tree,
O'ercrossed by winding creeks, where twice a day
Gurgled the waters of the moon-struck sea;
And faint with distance came the stifled roar,
The melancholy lapse of waves on the low shore."
Inland hills rising above hills stood like sentinels over the
almost unbroken wilderness. Centuries before this memorable landing
Indians had hunted in these forests and fished in the placid stream
that ebbs and flows to the falls of Newbury; but only a few of that
race remained to resist the encroachments of the white-faced
strangers. Dismal and gloomy must have been the outlook as these brave
pioneers gathered together at the close of the first day, and
contemplated the prospect before them. They knew that wild beasts were
roaming through the forests, and whether the red men would welcome
them as friends or foes was as yet uncertain.
"Their descendants can have but a faint idea of the difficulties
they encountered, and of the dangers that continually hung over their
heads, threatening every moment to overwhelm them like a torrent, and
sweep the, with those who they dearly loved, to the silent tomb."
Undismayed by these difficulties and dangers, the new settlers
instinctively turned their attention to the cultivation of the soil
and the development of the resources of nature. Here and there along
the winding river they appropriated the few clear spots where the
natives had formerly planted corn, and promptly took possession of the
neighboring marshes where the growing crop of salt grass promised an
abundant harvest. There was no lack of work; no room for idle
dreamers. Houses had to be built, land ploughed and tilled, and sheds
erected for the protection of cattle before winter set in. House lots,
planting lots, and meadow lots were laid out and granted to individual
members of the community, and the original entries, giving names and
dates, can still be seen on the old records of the town; but how many
houses were erected or how many families settled in Newbury during the
first year of its existence it is impossible to state with exactness.
Governor Winthrop, in his History of New England, under date of
June 3, 1635, records the arrival of two ships with Dutch cattle; and
the same day the ship "James" arrived from Southampton, bringing,
among other passengers, John Pike, father of the famous Robert Pike,
of Salisbury, and one Thomas Coleman, who had been employed b the
projectors of the stock-raising company to provide food for the cattle
and take care of them for a specified term of
years.
In the Massachusetts Colony Records, under date of July 8, 1635:-
It is ordered that there shall be a convenient quantity of land set
out by Mr. Dumer and Mr. Bartholemewe, within the bounds of Newbury,
for the keeping of the sheepe and cattell that came over in the Dutch
shipps this yeare, and to belong to the owners of said cattel.
Evidently, those who were engaged in this new enterprise intended
to utilize the vacant lands and at the same time establish a safe and
profitable business for themselves; but Coleman, becoming
dissatisfied, declined to carry out his part of the contract, and the
General Court finally ordered a division of the grain that had been
imported, and instructed each owner to take care of his own cattle.
(source: The Landing at Parker River (Newbury)
[http://engc.bu.edu/~dcm/pr_history/newbhist.htm] From: "Ould
Newbury": Historical and Biographical Sketches by John J. Currier
(1896),
Damrell and Upham, Boston.)
EDWARD, Newbury, s. of the preced. b. in Eng. m. 20 Dec. 1653, Mary
Goodridge, d. prob. of William of the same, had Mary, b. 29 Sept.
1654; Eliz. 11 July 1656, d. young; Edward, 1658, d. young; [p.641]
Rebecca, 17 Sept. 1661, d. soon; Rebecca, again, 20 July 1663; Sarah,
18 July 1665; Judith, 18 Nov. 1667; Edward, again, 20 Mar. 1670;
Archelaus, 9 June 1672; and Margaret, 31 Aug. 1676. He with his f. was
long involv. in the gr. relig. quarrel of wh. large reports are giv.
in the very valua. Hist. of N. by Coffin. (Savage 4:640) | Woodman, Edward (I5510)
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Thomas Lygon first appears in the records in 1414 and 1416, when
he was commissioner for the king for Worcester (Patent Rolls, p. 265
and 267). In 1415, he is mentioned as having received seisen of a
tenement in Worcester. In 1422, Thomas Lygon and others seized the
manor of Humphrey Stafford, the King's Knight, the manor of
Cheylemush, co. Salop, for the use of the Earl of March. This was
probably in a private quarrel of the Staffords and Mortimers in which
Thomas Lygon was on the side on the Mortimers. The Peerage (Collins,
Vol IX, p. 507-9), seems to have confused his record with that of his
son of the same name for it says, "Thomas Lygon mentioned in the 10th
year of Henry IV. (1409) was a Member of Parliament in the 16th year
of Edward IV (1477)," which is hardly probable. The four Lygon deeds,
which are the only ones of earlier date than Thomas Lygon's marriage,
throw little light on the history of the family beyond the fact that
they held land at Pensax and La Lowe. In the 7th year of Henry VI
(1428) Thomas Lygon was certified in the exchequer to hold lands in
Warnedon which John Braci (Bracy) sometimes had; for in the 7th year
of Henry V (1419). He married in 1419 or 1424, Joan Braci (de Bracy),
only daughter and heir of William Bracy, who died before 1450, and his
wife Isabel. The de Bracy family line started with William de Bracy,
Lord of Madresfield in 1250, who married Maud Warren, daughter of
William de Warren, a great grandson of William de Warren, 2nd Earl of
Warren, and his wife, Isabella Vermandois, granddaughter of King Henry
I. of France. They had a son, Robert de Bracy, who fought at the
battle of Evesham in 1265, married Maud and had William de Bracy,
Knight for the shire of Worcester, 1338. His son was Robert de Bracy,
Lord of Madresfield in 1345, who fought at the battle of Crecy and
the siege of Calais. He married Juliana. They had William de Bracy,
who married Joan. He died about 1390. They had William de Bracy, who
married in 1404 Isabel, as stated above, parents of Joan Braci, wife
of Thomas Lygon. After his marriage , Thomas made an enfeoffment of
his manors of Warnedon, Horton, and
Redmarley Oliver, with lands in Alfreton, Wyke, Shederley, King's
Mytton, and
Kidderminster. Whether he held other lands in Worcestershire in his
own right seems
uncertain, though since some land in Kidderminster was settled in 1448
on his own right heirs, while other lands were to remain to the heirs
of William Braci (Bracy), he probably had land of his own inheritance;
a Shropshire connection also appears in the mention of Lygenesmedue at
Hopton in 1428. The Lygons also seem to have held land at Highington
and St. John in Bedwardine in Worcestershire, and at Wulfirlowe,
Herefordshire. There were a few possible references to Thomas Lygon
elsewhere. He may be the Thomas Lygon who was employed on a commission
of Inquiry as to the lands of Thomas Shelley in Kent; if so, it is
likely that he was a lawyer, since the family had no connection with
that county. He is no doubt the Thomas Lygon who is mentioned
incidentally in connection with Shropshire in 1422. Thomas Lygon's
feoffees in 1448 made an enfeoffment to his son, William, of the
manors and lands dealt with in the deed of 1424. Thomas and Joan had
two sons as follows:
1. William Lygon received from his grandmother, Isabella Bracy, a
demise of the
manor of Madresfield, reserving to herself a part of the house. In
1456, the feoffes
confirmed the manors of Warndon and Horton to William and Elizabeth
Lygon with
remainder to his brother Thomas. This was probably after the death of
Isabella Bracy. In 1464, fresh feoffes confirmed Warndon,
Horton, and Bracy's Leigh to William and Elizabeth Lygon
with a like remainder. Elizabeth Lygon was a daughter of
Rainsford or Renford Arundel, who married Joan Coshill, daughter of
John Colshill, Knight. There is mention of William Lygon, late of
Warmyndon, Worcestershire, gentleman, concerning a debt to William
Forster, tailor, of London in 1453. He was employed on a commission
for peace for Worcestershire from 1471 to 1483.
2. Thomas Lygon. (see notes in his file) | Lygon, Thomas (I5993)
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Thomas Webber received Cape Neddick lands from his parents in 1716. | Webber, Thomas (I420)
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Three items that cannot be directly linked to Thomas Bragdon:
1. Albert Bragdon was awarded the Bragdon coat-of-arms and family crest by Queen Elizabeth I.
2. London Marriage Licenses: Bragdon, William and Bennet Julyans, Spinster, of the City of London, gen. lic., 14 October 1574.
3. Parishe of St. James, Clarkenwell, England. Burials: 1 August 1617, Elizabeth, wife of James Bragdon.
The dates used as birth-dates for Thomas' children are their christening dates. | Bragdon, Thomas (I1980)
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Waitstill's twin. | Webber, Patience (I424)
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Will of Benjamin Noyes of Plaistow, NH, made 15 Feb., 1770.
"I, Benjamin Noyes of Plaistow, in the Province of N.H. in New England - Yeoman - Knowing that it is appointed for all men to die - do make and
Ordain this my last Will and Testament; that is - to say, principally, and first of all. I, give and Recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, and my Body, I recomment to the Earth to be Buried in a decent Christian manner of Burial at the Discretion of my Executors, Nothing doubting but at the general Reserrection I shall receive the same again by the Mighty Power of God. And as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to Bless me, in this Life. I, give and Demise in of the same in Manner and form following-"
"I give and bequeath to Sarah my dearly Beloved wife, all my Personal estate, after my debts are paid - she to take care of the young children."
"I have already given my beloved son Benjamin, his portion of my estate, which was a trade, and an acre of land in Salisbury. "To my son Phillip 26 shillings Lawful Money in addition to what I have already given him, to be
paid him by my sons James and Joseph, when he shall have arrived to 21 years."
"To my dau. Mary Smith 6 shillings in addition to what I have given her, to be paid her when Phillip is 21 by James and Joseph."
"To my dau. Elizabeth Huntington 6 shillings in addition to what I have
given her, to be paid her when Phillip is 21 by James & Joseph."
"To my dau. Lydia Noyes £2, 8s. 8d. to be paid her when Phillip is 21 by James & Joseph."
To my dau. Sarah £4 &c-.
To my sons James and Joseph all my real estate in Plaistow equally
between them.
Will proved Feb. 19, 1783. | Noyes, Benjamin (I7085)
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!BIRTH:BOSTON TRANSCRIPT; 17 Dec 1902; #3535;NOTE: Barnstable
She married Samuel Small of Truro about 1713. A whale fisherman, he was lost at sea in 1729. She was listed as a widow 16 February, 1730/1. She became third wife of Joseph Hatch of Provincetown. Info source: Aurie W. Morrison, 1545 56th Square W, Vero Beach, FL 32966-2397.
NOTE: Listed as a Proprietor of Truro 16 Feb 1730, by then a widow.
"Isabel Smaley wife of Samuel Smaley was baptized February 26, 1726-7 at Truro."
On July 10,1730, the following petition was presented to the Probate Court:
"Isabel Small Earnestly Requests yt She may have compsion under her low curcumstances having 7 Small Children to Care for & take (care) off & almost all ye Personal Estate is Taken up to answer ye Debts." Jan.27,1730/31.
She became the third wife of Joseph Hatch, then of Provincetown.
[Descendants of Edward Small and Allied Families, Underhill, Revised Edition, 1934, Vol. 1, pp 128,129,130,133,134] | Dyer, Isabel (I16381)
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? | Paine, Thomas (I32539)
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"...[T]he pinnace sailed south past Plymouth to the bottom of Cape Cod Bay, dropping anchor off Cummaquid, a name retained by one of the shore villages in the township of Barnstable. They were well received by Iyanough, the local sachem, whom the Pilgrims had met and been so impressed with the year before. A young man in his twenties, he was 'personable, gentle, courteous, and fair-conditioned; indeed, not like a savage save for his attire. His entertainment was answerable to his parts, and his cheer plentiful and various.' So it was again, and Iyanough undertook to gather as large a supply of provisions as the Cummaquid could spare."
((source: George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers, (New York: Time Incorporated, 1964), pp 228-229)
Iyanough was the chief sachem of the the Cummaquid tribe. The Pilgrims had landed in his area when they were searching for the Nausets. He told them that young John Billington, whom the Nausets had found lost in the woods and taken, was just fine. He gave the Pilgrims a big dinner with entertainment. He then came aboard the shallop and sailed with the Pilgrims leading them to Nauset. When they arrived, the tide was out and they could not come ashore, but Iyanough swam ashore to inform Aspinet--the chief sachem of the Nausets--of the Pilgrims arrival. After the Pilgrims left the Nausets, the wind did not allow them to get home directly, and so they ended up back with Iyanough again. The Pilgrims being very thirsty, Iyanough led an expedition in search of some fresh water for them to drink. The Cummaquid tribe held another celebration of singing and dancing. The next day Iyanough gave them the water they needed, and the Pilgrims made their way back to Patuxet (Plymouth). The Pilgrims described Iyanough as follows: "Iyanough, a man not exceeding twenty-six years of age, but very personable, gentle, courteous, and fair conditioned, indeed not like a savage, save for his attire. His entertainment was answerable to his parts, and his cheer plentiful and various." Iyanough died before March 1623 of a disease which swept Cape Cod early that year, probably brought by Thomas Weston's colonists which settled at Wessgussett in 1622.
(source: Mayflower Web Pages. Caleb Johnson c 1997)
Barnstable was one of the first three towns settled on the Cape, incorporated in 1639 along with Sandwich and Yarmouth. Named for Barnstaple, England, (the colonists were not known for their spelling strengths) many place names in the town actually reflect the early presence of Native Indians of various tribes. The villages of Cotuit, Cummaquid and Hyannis can trace their names to Indian roots. Hyannis, for example, is named for Iyannough (also spelled Iyanough, or Iyanno or a number of other ways), the Cummaquid sachem who extended kind hospitality to early settlers. His grave, off Route 6A in Cummaquid along the north shore of Barnstable, is marked (look for the sign), and a bronze statue of him stands in at the Village Green on Main Street in Hyannis as it rightly should.
(source: Historic Cape Cod, http://www.insiders.com/capecod/main-historic.htm)
Parents: Iyanough (Highyannough, Ihyannough) * Sachem of the Wampanoag and Daughter of Canonicus * Princess of the Narangasett. | Hyanno, John (I10893)
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"...Ancient Wethersfield..." has 1706. | Willard, Jonathan (I17428)
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"...Ancient Wethersfield..." has 23 Nov. 1649. | Willard, Deacon Simon (I17420)
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"...Ancient Wethersfield..." has 4 June 1660. | Willard, Joseph (I17425)
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"...Ancient Wethersfield..." has 6 Oct. 1666. | Willard, Hannah (I17427)
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"...Ancient Wethersfield..." says 27 June 1642. | Willard, Sarah (I19443)
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"...Clark and Worth" has 1650. Find-a-grave has 1648. | Moulton, Capt. Jeremiah Esq. (I275)
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"...Clark and Worth" says 1643. | Moulton, Abigail (I276)
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"...Harriman Genealogy..." and Find-a-grave both have 16 June 1652. | Harriman, Matthew Sr. (I15456)
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"...Lowells of America" says 1639. | Family: John Lowell / Elizabeth Goodale (F1750)
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"...Lowells of America" says 20 Jan. 1760 and Newbury. | Lowell, Hannah (I5350)
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"...Philbrook Families" says 1647. | Chase, Lt. Isaac (I7382)
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"...Philbrook Families" says 1775. | Family: Jeremiah Philbrook / Sarah Jane Leadbetter (F1496)
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"...Philbrook Families" says 4 Jan. 1661. | Garland, John (I7375)
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"...Philbrook Families" says he was born at Bath, Find-a-grave says Georgetown. | Philbrook, Phineas (I4844)
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"...Philbrook Families" says she was born 20 May 1702. | Philbrook, Mary (I5773)
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"...Philbrook Families" says she was born at Bath. | Philbrook, Sarah (I4847)
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"...Piscataway..." says he was born 12 May 1662. | Bingley, William Jr. (I13561)
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"...Thomas Hale" says 20 Oct. 1667. | Hale, Henry (I10135)
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"...Worcester..." has about 1641. | Hall, Deacon John (I13539)
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"7 akers next to Richard Hitchcock." | Pennell, Walter (I11829)
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"a kind of distracted fellow." | Cross, John Jr. (I5622)
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"Abbot Families..." says 1834. | Abbot, Samuel Jr. (I9168)
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"After serving as a King's Musketeer, Philibert Couillaud Roquebrune joined the Carignan-Salières regiment, in the Company of Mr. de Contrecoeur. He left France, so goes the story, after a duel in which his opponent, Hauterive, was mortally wounded. Since dueling was illegal, Roquebrune was now in trouble with the king. A cousin, La Roque de Saint-Chamarand, was able to help him wriggle out of the scrape. He was spirited off to New France in 1665 to fight the Iroquois. King Louis XIV by now held Roquebrune back in his good graces. He encouraged Roquebrune and the other officers and soldiers of Carignan to remain in the colony. Philibert did remain and in so doing became the main progenitor of the Larocque family in North America."
from http://web.syr.edu/~rcranger/rocque.htm | Couillaud dit Rocquebrune, Philibert (I23341)
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"all that my whole share of land aloted unto mee neare unto Namassekett both uplands and meddows with all and singulare the appurtenances thereunto belonging, ... alsoe ... another portion of land Called by the name of Rehoboth which land was formerly graunted unto mee; lying upon the south side of the smelt River; according as it is bounded and sett out; bee it forty acrees more or less with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging ... and ... the other fourth p[a]rte of my said Purchase lands". | Bryant, Stephen Sr. (I37477)
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"And first I give and bequeath to my eldest son, David, that lot whereon is the frame of a house called David's lot, and that one and one-half acre lot of boggy meadow which I bought of mother, [Mrs. John Kirby, his first mother-in-law] and the one-fourth of my boggy meadow in Goose Delight, and my great wood-lot on the east side of great river.
"Item. I give my son John the lot whereon he hath built and doth now inhabit, with my upper lot at Pistol Point, where it buts on Scovil, and the one-fourth of my Goose Delight meadow, and my great wood lot next Wethersfield bounds.
"Item. My two daughters Bull and Johnson, thirty pounds in pay to each of them, to be paid at my widow's decease.
"Item. I give my daughter, Mercy, 50 pounds in pay-20 pounds paid as she needs it, the other 30 at her mother's decease.
"Item. The rest of my estate, personal and real, I leave with my wife, to be managed by my sons Jonathan and Timothy, so that she have a comfortable maintenance her natural life, and at her decease to be shared by said Jonathan and Timothy, debts and legacies paid. It is my will, further, that. my son John should have my two lots in Round Meadow." | Sage, David (I13814)
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| 536 |
"Bacon and Allied Families" says 29 May 1638. | Rogers, Thomas (I10003)
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| 537 |
"Bacon and Allied Families" says she was born about 1605. Anderson has "say 1607". | Hopkins, Constance (I10090)
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| 538 |
"Bacon and Allied Families" states that he was born about 1607. Anderson has "say 1609". | Hopkins, Giles (I9337)
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| 539 |
"Beebe Family" says 4 Dec. 1702. | Beebe, Joseph (I8905)
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| 540 |
"being weak in body" bequeathed "to my eldest son John Turner" his farm; to "my son Joseph Turner £40" also £12; to "my son John Turner £5"; to "my son Daniel Turner £12"; to "my son Nathaniel Turner £50"; to "my daughter Mary [illegible] £10"; to "my daughter Lydia Doughtey £12"; "unto my grandchild Humphrey Turner £5"; to "my grandchild Mary Doughtey £10"; to "my grandchildren Jonathan Turner, Josiah Turner and Elizabeth Turner, being the fruits of my eldest son, 10s. a year"; to "son Nathaniel Turner all my livestock both cattles, horses, sheep, etc."; to "my son Thomas Turner all my wearing clothes, one wood bed and blankets". | Turner, Humphrey (I8417)
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| 541 |
"Bolton Family" says 14 Aug. 1649. | Bolton, Thankful (I8629)
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| 542 |
"Booth Family..." says about 1615. | Harris, Thomas (I14949)
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| 543 |
"Booth Family..." says about 1618. | Harris, Capt. Daniel (I14950)
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| 544 |
"Bullard..." has 11 Mar. 1651. | Calkins, Rebecca (I12250)
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| 545 |
"Bullard..." says before 1622. | Baldwin, John Sr. (I8584)
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| 546 |
"Bullard..." says before 1640. | Family: John Baldwin, Sr. / Mary Camp (F3343)
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| 547 |
"Bullard..." says he was born in Leyden probably about 1612. | Cook, Deacon John Sr. (I10612)
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| 548 |
"Burgess Genealogy..." list death as 23 Feb. 1685. Others have 27 Feb 1685. Perhaps he died on the 23rd and was buried on the 27th. For now, I'll stay with the 13th. | Burgess, Thomas (I7826)
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| 549 |
"Burgess Genealogy..." lists as before 1736. | Burgess, Samuel (I7819)
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| 550 |
"Burgess Genealogy..." states death date as 13 Dec 1843. | Burgess, Capt. John (I7801)
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